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Religulous (2008)

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Average Rating: 6.3/10
Reviews Counted: 152
Fresh: 106 | Rotten: 46

Religulous is funny and offensive in equal measure, and aims less to change hearts and minds than to inspire conversation.

Average Rating: 6/10
Critic Reviews: 34
Fresh: 22 | Rotten: 12

Religulous is funny and offensive in equal measure, and aims less to change hearts and minds than to inspire conversation.

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Movie Info

Borat director Larry Charles follows host Bill Maher as he travels the continents interviewing various subjects about God and religion. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi

R, 1 hr. 41 min.

Documentary, Faith & Spirituality, Comedy

Directed By: Larry Charles

In Theaters: Sep 6, 2008 Wide

On DVD: Feb 17, 2009

Box Office:$13.0M

Lionsgate Films

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Bill Maher

Critic Reviews for Religulous

All Critics (154) | Top Critics (34) | Fresh (110) | Rotten (46) | DVD (6)

Maher is essentially and professionally a comic, and the measure of this movie is not just the thoughts it provokes but the laughs it generates.

November 10, 2008 Full Review Source: Film.com

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Jonathan F. Richards

Film.com

Top Critic

I think this is an important movie, challenging, many beliefs that many of us seem unwilling to talk about. Mainly, though, you'll laugh...a lot.

November 10, 2008 Full Review Source: At the Movies

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Ben Mankiewicz

At the Movies

Top Critic

Religulous has an unholy fervor that should start many bonfires.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: New York Magazine

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David Edelstein

New York Magazine

Top Critic

About half of the movie works in its snide, hit-and-run way. The other half throws more and more darts at the same balloon, long after it pops.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Chicago Tribune

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Michael Phillips

Chicago Tribune

Top Critic

Maher sets out not after answers but cheap laughs that preach, so to speak, to the converted.

October 18, 2008 Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times

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Kenneth Turan

Los Angeles Times

Top Critic

Was Maher afraid he might muddy his clownish jape if he actually brought into the mix a learned theologian?

October 6, 2008 Full Review Source: Christian Science Monitor

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Peter Rainer

Christian Science Monitor

Top Critic

Bill Maher admittedly dresses a one-sided anti-religion diatribe in documentary linens and the hypocrites he finds make great punchlines. But he also addresses the historically proven truth of faith perverted for power and the danger posed to us all.

September 17, 2010 Full Review Source: Suite101.com

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Nick Rogers

Suite101.com

Rather disconcertingly, the film builds towards a vision of the apocalypse, the destructive fate that religious conflicts have in store for us -- a version of the future any hellfire preacher would be proud of.

December 9, 2009 Full Review Source: The Age (Australia)

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Philippa Hawker

The Age (Australia)

Borat/Bruno meets Michael Moore in this funny and thought provoking attack on religion.

December 9, 2009 Full Review Source: FILMINK (Australia)

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Dov Kornits

FILMINK (Australia)

So if you are not already on-side with [Maher's] particular leanings, the pickings in Religulous are very slim indeed.

December 9, 2009 Full Review Source: Herald Sun (Australia)

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Leigh Paatsch

Herald Sun (Australia)

The Passion of the Maher

September 1, 2009 Full Review Source: minnpost.com

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Rob Nelson

minnpost.com

Instead of confronting real problems radiating from the world's major religions Mr. Maher and Mr. Charles opt for Borat redux, making fun of silly little yokels.

August 30, 2009 Full Review Source: Washington Times

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Sonny Bunch

Washington Times Source: Washington Times

Ever the clever quipper, Bill Maher tackles religious dogma and ritual%u2013and Bibles tales%u2013in this documentary of irreverence. The film is witty and pointedly critical%u2013but it's no revelation.

June 27, 2009 Full Review Source: About.com

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Jennifer Merin

About.com

Ultimately, the movie is an impotent howl into the wind.

June 7, 2009 Full Review Source: eFilmCritic.com

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Rob Gonsalves

eFilmCritic.com

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May 10, 2009 Full Review Source: Movies for the Masses

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Joseph Proimakis

Movies for the Masses

Wants to be a wakeup call in a room where the people are willing to sleep just a little too deeply.

April 17, 2009 Full Review Source: Window to the Movies

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Jeffrey Chen

Window to the Movies

I'm all for a documentary about the mass hysteria of our warring creeds, but stand-up satirist Bill Maher turns out to be the wrong man to make it.

April 9, 2009 Full Review Source: Daily Telegraph

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Tim Robey

Daily Telegraph

Maher has gone for easy targets. He comes up with the odd funny gag, but you get the feeling that he is as dogmatic about his doubt as the believers are about their faith.

April 9, 2009 Full Review Source: Times [UK]

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Cosmo Landesman

Times [UK]

Often funny, frequently unfair, mostly simplistic, at times offensively unethical and ultimately limited.

April 9, 2009 Full Review Source: Observer [UK]

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Philip French

Observer [UK]

It was much more thought-provoking than I was expecting, but his blatant bias made me feel that he was no less a fundamentalist than the religious people he was criticising.

April 3, 2009 Full Review Source: Little White Lies

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Little White Lies

Over-extended but nonetheless thought provoking and humorous documentary.

April 3, 2009 Full Review Source: Time Out

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David Jenkins

Time Out

Fortunately for filmgoers, the sight of Bill Maher laying the smacketh down on God is, to quote Homer Simpson, truly "sacrilicious".

April 3, 2009 Full Review Source: Film4

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Richard Luck

Film4

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Comedian Bill Maher takes a close look at religion in this very funny, but thought provoking documentary. Religion is a subject that is very controversial, and eye opening. I am a big fan of Bill Maher, thus I had to check out this film. The result is a flawed, but nonetheless entertaining documentary. The film uses

May 4, 2012

Jeff "The Dude" Lebowski

Super Reviewer

Comedian Bill Maher takes his smirking cynicism of religious dogma on the road and talks to various crackpots in this documentary exploring belief. Maher is taking up the standard of the likes of Bill Hicks as he mocks his way through the various modern faiths both great and small. Religulous is clearly meant more as

November 15, 2008

xGary Xx

Super Reviewer

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